Re: New method for Packages/Sources file updates

2004-12-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eduard, I put you in the TO because this should improve your apt-dupdate nightly runs: Anthony Towns writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>very hard (figure out how to make a minimal diff >>from the daylies) or

Re: New method for Packages/Sources file updates

2004-12-03 Thread Anthony Towns
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: very hard (figure out how to make a minimal diff from the daylies) or you need every days Packages file (apt-dupdate does that). Is there any program in Debian to do this for ed script style diffs? pat

Re: New method for Packages/Sources file updates

2004-12-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [snip] >> >> very hard (figure out how to make a minimal diff >> >> from the daylies) or you need every days Packages file (apt-dupdate >> >> does that). >> > >> > It is not "very hard" to re-diff a few files to incorporate

Re: New method for Packages/Sources file updates

2004-12-02 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [snip] > >> very hard (figure out how to make a minimal diff > >> from the daylies) or you need every days Packages file (apt-dupdate > >> does that). > > > > It is not "very hard" to re-diff a few files to incorporate the changes > > between old and new Packages file. >

Re: New method for Packages/Sources file updates

2004-12-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [snip] >> >> With cumulative patches you run into the problem that you need a new >> >> cummulative patch for every day that contains most of what the >> >> previous one did. That realy quickly becomes a space issue. >> > >>

Re: New method for Packages/Sources file updates

2004-12-01 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [snip] > >> With cumulative patches you run into the problem that you need a new > >> cummulative patch for every day that contains most of what the > >> previous one did. That realy quickly becomes a space issue. > > > > Errm, no, it doesn't need _one_ new cumulative pa

Re: New method for Packages/Sources file updates

2004-12-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [snip] >> >> - preformance penalty for repeated patching of the same package >> >> (e.g. the zsh-beta upload every odd day) >> >> >> >> - compression penalty due to lots of small files instead of one big >> >> one from g